Best Practices - Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise Architecture is an ongoing strategy, planning and management

process to help Business and IT executives to align the business strategy with
the execution of that strategy with IT.
Enterprise Architecture Best Practices
Obtain the organizational buy in, sponsorship and support of all stakeholders in
establishing the Enterprise Architecture.
Establish the management and control structures for Enterprise Architecture
governance and compliance processes.
Define the Enterprise Architecture Framework, the Enterprise Architecture
development process and plan the management approach.
Develop the baseline enterprise Enterprise Architecture, starting from the
management view with business principles and business services, followed by
high level reference models and patterns .
Develop the future state Enterprise Architecture model in terms of IT Strategies
such as service based architecture, building blocks and component based
applications.
Develop and facilitate a prioritized Enterprise Architecture Roadmap of all the
planned architecture initiatives in order to gradually realize the future state
architecture vision
Support the use of the Enterprise Architecture assets, assessing compliance and
integrating architecture with the project management and system development
processes.
Maintain and evolve a repository of all Enterprise Architecture models and
documents, including all the Enterprise Architecture documents produced by
acquisition, development and integration projects.
Ensure enterprise architecture is a primarily a business-driven, top down process.
Communicate enterprise architecture plans, value and benefits. Enterprise
architecture is 40% communication of the strategies, goals, objectives, roadmap
of initiatives and benefits of enterprise architecture throughout the organisation.
Publicize all the work in progress on the Enterprise Architecture models to all
stakeholders. Always avoid making Enterprise Architecture into an 'Ivory tower'.
Breakdown any process 'silos' and create holistic enterprise architecture models.
Remain flexible and adaptable to change.
Build up the enterprise architecture models as a series of realistic and achievable
Iterations.

Remain focused on delivering value in each Iteration.

Don't be distracted from the future state enterprise architecture by focusing
exclusively on quick wins
Focus on the requirements and demands from the Enterprise as a whole,
balanced with the often competing demands from individual business areas and
programmes.

Source : iea.wikidot.com
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